Day in the Life of DCFS caseworkers

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  • We follow the lives of Division of Children and Family Services investigator Teresa Bunche and caseworker Melissa Lowe as they juggle their heavy caseloads.
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    Video by Stephen B. Thornton and Marci Manley, DHS Office of Communications and Community Engagement
    Both Music tracks by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com

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  • @AlejandroJaime213
    @AlejandroJaime213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Rip Gabriel Fernandez

  • @BettieBoo
    @BettieBoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    A thankless job for sure, as evident by the comments. You all work so hard in a very tough position.

    • @robbarker2128
      @robbarker2128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well there has to be something to thank first sooooo🤷🏽😂

    • @odethcerrato2
      @odethcerrato2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Michael Park what😂 you need to realize the DCFS doesn't get involved because they go looking for cases. People around you make reports about it. So you should be blaming them and not DCFS

    • @odethcerrato2
      @odethcerrato2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Michael Park nope :) your lack of understanding about the child welfare system and the abuse that kids go through baffles me

    • @odethcerrato2
      @odethcerrato2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Michael Park you don't know if I have.... The fact that you are assuming I haven't experienced anything like that just keeps showing me how unaware you are of the abuse these kids go through

  • @coachevy2851
    @coachevy2851 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I lost respect with social workers ages ago. My mother worked for them they would pay her to go to the bad neighborhoods to take reports because they were too afraid to go in the hood. My mom would ask me to go with her. I would take the day off work and go. I saw some crazy stuff...I don't know what the heck the social workers did with the reports my mom wrote but it's obvious the children's department are not doing their jobs. The higher ups are living comfortably in their homes and big paychecks while children like Gabriel Fernandez are being tortured to death, the system is blood guilty. They have to answer to God!!!! And that they will!!

    • @ASEmastermechanic
      @ASEmastermechanic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just so you know your mom she violated department policy by bringing you along. I am a 26 year caseworker. Agree with your point about the higher ups, I called them the email pushers, just sitting around acting important, while the families and kids fend for themselves.

    • @lashonethomas183
      @lashonethomas183 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You could help or talk n type

  • @yairalonso4029
    @yairalonso4029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I got my kids back after 2 years,it was the worst day of my life ever when they took em ..

  • @hopelove6658
    @hopelove6658 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank you for what you do!

  • @melissaschram2489
    @melissaschram2489 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I don't understand how people can be so against DCFS. There are definitely major flaws that need to be addressed, but think of how many kids wouldn't be dead today if the job had been done right.

    • @88jessicalong
      @88jessicalong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You should talk to the good families who don't have Thier children because they didn't know Thier rights . Signed papers with nothing to hide and lost their child. Oh that's me. You should talk to me

    • @xmw0714
      @xmw0714 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      There are probably more children that end up dead in foster care because they were taken away from loving families and put in foster care which are child molesting, unloving, money seeking people for the most part.

    • @tfeya777
      @tfeya777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah the chances of child abuse increases drastically if that child is under their care. Why would anyone not want that ? Mind boggling....

    • @timechangeseverybody3608
      @timechangeseverybody3608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because it's scary that the government has that much power

    • @stardust1654
      @stardust1654 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xmw0714 Yes true

  • @bethanybaptistchurchdearbo9344
    @bethanybaptistchurchdearbo9344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    If these people come knocking don't even talk to them! Instantly call a attorney.
    These people destroy more families than they restore!

    • @Lagomization
      @Lagomization 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Projecting.

    • @sugarfree8303
      @sugarfree8303 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Lagomization fact

    • @TheMaskedThearpist
      @TheMaskedThearpist ปีที่แล้ว +2

      they are literally doing the best they can to help. being hateful isn't helpful.

    • @carolinachartier
      @carolinachartier ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Never been more truth spoken than this statement

    • @kinkykitty5193
      @kinkykitty5193 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      true don't open the door to them but eventually they'll come with the cops

  • @sheilaloftin6242
    @sheilaloftin6242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I’m getting my MSW in social work and I’m interviewing as a case manager for dfcs in my state. I genuinely want to help people and I don’t think the average person in this field or at this job has hate in their heart. They are doing what they feel is right for the child. You have to honestly want to help and improve the lives of others to go into this field of work.

    • @robbarker2128
      @robbarker2128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What you feel is right isn't up to you.

    • @timechangeseverybody3608
      @timechangeseverybody3608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please stay humble and don't get on a power Trip. And use your gut. If you think a kids really being abused, argue with your boss about removing them if necessary. No more child deaths while under dfcs jurisdiction. Good luck

  • @pauldaniels2766
    @pauldaniels2766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    DCS does way more harm than good

  • @coachevy2851
    @coachevy2851 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Gabriel's social workers are blood guilty.

  • @jasminetapia4467
    @jasminetapia4467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love helping people especially children. I don’t have a college degree but it’s my passion and I have always had an infinity for helping others.

    • @jupibowen
      @jupibowen ปีที่แล้ว

      You don't need a degree

  • @EvelenaRichmond
    @EvelenaRichmond ปีที่แล้ว

    I have worked with so many different types of kids, with different types of disabilities and I can still have an open mind about how I treat a kid with problems.

  • @stevechapman3249
    @stevechapman3249 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    makin it sound thier doin a good job

  • @CynLG
    @CynLG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Too many cases per investigators. Sad.

  • @88jessicalong
    @88jessicalong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow they need DCF to intervene.

  • @donaldross3465
    @donaldross3465 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    cps needs to stop making continued investigations on false accusations because of people calling cps over their own personal vendettas against people because they do not like the other person!

    • @shump16
      @shump16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How would they know it’s a false accusation?

    • @kinkykitty5193
      @kinkykitty5193 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@shump16personal experience

  • @michelletrasatti5771
    @michelletrasatti5771 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You guys don’t get enough credit!!!!

  • @willisfrost3770
    @willisfrost3770 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I want to become a social worker, go ahead and add me to your "hate list." They are very well needed in the world we live in today. To bad all the haters can't do anything to stop human services, it will always be around. Have a dam good night, oh and sweet dreams knuckleheads. 😝

    • @1hanagima
      @1hanagima 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      These commentors are ignorant trolls lol. Yes there are some foster homes and foster care workers who are scum but that isnt the majority. These workers have their hands tied a lot of times when it comes to whether or not a child can be removed. These mouth breathers all think a child is automatically removed for NO REASON 🤣 if your child was removed YOUR the reason. The state doesn't want your child for money lol that means they have to PAY for the child until they age out. these people make me laught.

    • @genlabonte1478
      @genlabonte1478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They are hated for good reason. ALL of tgem lie on reports and alter paperwork to set up innocent people and kidnap children. I know from experience. They remove a child with proven unfounded neglect ALLEGATIONS. Cps is corrupt as fk.

    • @Rebecca-qn4ux
      @Rebecca-qn4ux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe your gonna be one of those CPS social workers that hate on parent’s. Are you? If so don’t be a jackass social worker who lies for a living! Thank you.

    • @robbarker2128
      @robbarker2128 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually they get stopped all the time lmfao. Don't worry though I'm sure somebody will be around to keep your wife nice and cozy while your out doing what you think is "God's work." 😂😭😂😭 off yourself bud

    • @wolflordbanner4429
      @wolflordbanner4429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Simon B. Williams. - I like how you think. We social workers gotta stick together!! We do it for justice!

  • @alondraalvarez2408
    @alondraalvarez2408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I am currently studying protective services to have this job and help children know they have a voice but not just from parent abuse but from school bully abuse

    • @Rebecca-qn4ux
      @Rebecca-qn4ux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is your statement a joke? Come on really. A Nazi or communist must have gotten the Welfare & Institutions Code Section passed back in the 1940’s-1950’s in California man. I researched this law in 1987-1988 and couldn’t even find the “author” of this sick and satanic law man! The person, man or woman, must have been real slick to get this law passed through the CA State Assembly back in time. Huh? You do your homework! Go try to find out what person instituted this satanic law and corrupt law into existence. That’s what you and your education can do woman. But when you become that CPS social worker, that you want to become, don’t lie now. Because for every child you take out of a families home, ya all get millions and millions of State and Federal monies. And money is the “ROOT” of all evil. Huh? Thank you!

    • @marciadurkee3532
      @marciadurkee3532 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry but I would choose another line of work.Tidays cps worker is despised and very few Americans respect them.It is known of the corruption and child trafficking cps is involved in.It is a matter of time become this agency crashes.

  • @daphnietudor2953
    @daphnietudor2953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah my baby was born with subutex in her system BC I was taking it dr prescribed. She did not withdraw. My kids are fed and clothes and we been living at our address for over 3 years. Well they scheduled the 1st visit came drug tested me and husband we passed. Second visit they didn't show up. And today 2 weeks after the 1st missed visit again a show. All they needed was dr records the 1st worker said oh things came up so she had to "take leave" plan is to stay with parents. So idk why they keep scheduling and not showing up.

  • @tashalynnwells8439
    @tashalynnwells8439 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    CPS hire people that don't have kids of their own they shouldn't be a CPS worker if they don't have kids and never been in the in system they are all about meeting there quota and getting a paycheck for each kid that gets taken from a loving and their family

  • @jamielake-boyd3600
    @jamielake-boyd3600 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What do you do when you have a case worker WHO LIES ALL THE TIME? I think it's dangerous and a disgrace to have a compulsive liar having handling kids

  • @Tweh92
    @Tweh92 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So dcf caseworkers arent that bad will they actually help you if you do temporary custody? Im curently homeless with my 2yo and cant hardly get any help and cant find a daycare at the moment 😢

  • @gershen8846
    @gershen8846 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Didnt get home untill 10pm and she has kids. I think ill make a cps report on her. Im afraid her children are being neglected with the long hours she works

    • @88jessicalong
      @88jessicalong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Haha love this I said the same thing.

    • @xmw0714
      @xmw0714 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There was a commercial playing in my area about a year ago trying to recruit people to become “foster care parents” and they said “you don’t have to be perfect to become a foster care parent”. Now, just think about that one. These people are crazy and sick.

    • @1hanagima
      @1hanagima 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@xmw0714 you dont have to be perfect to be a parent. No parent is perfect that is why they are trying to educate the public on being foster parents which is needed!

    • @bradleylomas7525
      @bradleylomas7525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@1hanagima no it isn't. That is false. Real families are needed

    • @1hanagima
      @1hanagima 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bradleylomas7525 real parents? Too bad there are THOUSANDS of children without real parents or else we wouldn't need foster parents.

  • @Cheshhire
    @Cheshhire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    These people are responsible for 123 child deaths last year. Most killed by their foster parents the rest committed suicide. The 30 that committed suicide dcfs said that those kids must have had issues. Those kids lost all hope and wanted to be home and dcfs imprisoned them into horrible lives. All of those children would still be alive today if it were not for DCFS.

    • @kaylawilliams5135
      @kaylawilliams5135 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And what are you doing to help

    • @Cheshhire
      @Cheshhire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kaylawilliams5135 Not trafficking children and attacking families like dcfs does. They have some good stories but they have way too many corrupt trash working for them.

    • @AFVfan1
      @AFVfan1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kaylawilliams5135 Who said it was his responsibility to do something? And furthermore, do you work for dcfs?

    • @y_flowers
      @y_flowers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep. What can we do???? We usually don’t do anything because it’s a losing game, right???

    • @Cheshhire
      @Cheshhire 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@y_flowers you expose these people that commit corruption. In the end the truth comes out and they can't stop that. As it does you are now armed.

  • @pamelaclary3801
    @pamelaclary3801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Def is definitely not here to help. Only corrupt.

  • @deeannbennett18
    @deeannbennett18 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do not trust these people never have and never will

  • @PS-sw7iv
    @PS-sw7iv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    How about the fact that the DCF social worker is working so much… She should be investigated for neglect of her children 😂

  • @ag4055
    @ag4055 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    omg while driving

    • @dasondanielczuk673
      @dasondanielczuk673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      when you're the law, you can break the law. also she's female. every tom, dick, and hentry wants to fuck her and protect her. sick america isnt it?

    • @danamist6178
      @danamist6178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      First thing I noticed!!!!! She would accuse a parent of abuse and neglect for the same thing! She's calling her supervisor aka the brain who sits on there ass getting a paycheck from kidnapping, dead children and destroying families its sick

    • @tamsinmorgan5043
      @tamsinmorgan5043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danamist6178 I would love to see you spend a month doing what this woman does. You’re a disgusting human being for thinking you can criticize her. She went into this profession with the hopes to help children and families. Obviously the system isn’t perfect but that is nowhere near her fault. Social work is number 1 on the list of the 7 most demanding career paths with the highest burnout rates. These social workers are working their asses off to give these children a better opportunity at life. If you hear about specific cases where social workers made mistakes which lead to the death or harm of a child you have every right to be mad, but to generalize and say that every social work is like that is something you should be ashamed of.

  • @natrixxvision6997
    @natrixxvision6997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Let’s see...how could a DCFS worker lower their caseload???

  • @wayneash8868
    @wayneash8868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So many kids get killed lost and take people kids these people are Horrible

  • @cindytatom5308
    @cindytatom5308 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Child Trafficking

  • @otrjaymardii8755
    @otrjaymardii8755 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up in the hood in pahokee fl very poor town I don't care what none of yall say I grew up in extreme poverty lights cut off every other month food in the house fri sat sun mon but tue we'd thu we had to go to school to eat and all the other kids in the neighborhood use to pick at me and my brothers but listen I'm glad I never was taken from my parents they did the best they can my father and mother can't read they are very uneducated but let me tell you that poverty made me and all my brothers stronger then all those kids that use to pick at us now all my brothers are more successful then our who town everybody looks up to use for what they know we been through that poverty made us stronger then you can every believe thank God I will not change anything about my pass because I know how to legally hustle witout the excuses I use to cut grass clean up yards anything as a little 10 year old I swear I'm kind of proud because I know many of yall can't survive but me and my brothers have and we are all successful today none of use are criminals

  • @memyselfi9221
    @memyselfi9221 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Eat, take kids away from actually good parents, then leave children in awful homes and say job well done.

  • @jamielake-boyd3600
    @jamielake-boyd3600 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why don't you want to talk about Erin. She looked at the kids and seen they were taken care where karen wants to be noisy about the adult bussiness and cause problems where there is none and don't care about how her words and behavior might effect kids that were traumatized IN YOUR CARE.

  • @CoCojoy420
    @CoCojoy420 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fuck that job, such a example of driving and manipulating your cellphone, while driving, when you calm down, assuming a lot

  • @arielforbes4874
    @arielforbes4874 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mmmm.. for like 40k a year ? I think not .

  • @Account12326
    @Account12326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How do I become a caseworker? I'm 16 I graduate 2021 and I know I have to go to college and everything but is there anything else I should know??

    • @odethcerrato2
      @odethcerrato2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bachelor's degree in social work or related areas like psychology, sociology, etc.

    • @duanenichols8666
      @duanenichols8666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You have to get comfortable to handing children over to child molesters while you go home to your cushy life to work for them

    • @Account12326
      @Account12326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Duane Nichols your comment is so ignorant like u don’t understand how hard caseworker jobs are. Ok yes I understand not every situation is that bad to the point where they have to take someones kids away but most kids in the system just need someone to be there for them which is why I wanna be a caseworker! So instead of your thinking about that comment you made and think about how children of all ages have no one but themselves especially teenagers!

    • @duanenichols8666
      @duanenichols8666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Account12326 if you ignore the constitution then you are ignorant

    • @livinglik3ang3l
      @livinglik3ang3l 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Duane Nichols your comment was irrelevant....... you could’ve said something better but you waste your time to write something irrelevant.

  • @TheMaskedThearpist
    @TheMaskedThearpist ปีที่แล้ว

    sounds sooo stressfullll

    • @headrickwife
      @headrickwife ปีที่แล้ว

      I imagine it would be stressful to rip babies from their families and sell them.

    • @aliglo333
      @aliglo333 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@headrickwifeyou sound like a sick conspiracy theorist...these people do not get paid or appreciated nearly enough for their willingness to try to protect kids and families

  • @kapilbehl8102
    @kapilbehl8102 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @jamielake-boyd3600
    @jamielake-boyd3600 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it just me or should all case quakers know child development. Like ages they should be able to climb and appreciate ages kids put thing in there mouth like 0 to 3 not 5 or 6. And when you talk about abuse in foster care system I'd say traditional not family

  • @aviaforrester1481
    @aviaforrester1481 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    in.

  • @vickichaney7806
    @vickichaney7806 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Every person who has ever worked for CPS/DHR WILL face the same judgement they pass on families. My prayer is every last one of them rot in Hell. Even that is to good for them. Legalized kidnapping for money is shameful and that is exactly what they do. Ruining innocent families.

  • @ldld2311
    @ldld2311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They help protect children from their own loving mother and father

  • @chicagodog3171
    @chicagodog3171 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Cps is bad

    • @CynLG
      @CynLG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No. Bad parents are bad.

    • @chicagodog3171
      @chicagodog3171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CynLG ok Karen

    • @pamelaclary3801
      @pamelaclary3801 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No you are bad, you’re a cps worker or a cps follower, you devil.

    • @imjustanameless
      @imjustanameless 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CynLG No, I was taken away from my parents for no good reason. When I was removed is when actual abuse happened by foster parents.

  • @duanenichols8666
    @duanenichols8666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A day in the life of a baby stealer

  • @wayneash8868
    @wayneash8868 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is rediculouse cps doesn't do this

    • @CynLG
      @CynLG 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Learn to spell.

    • @pamelaclary3801
      @pamelaclary3801 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ll bet you understood what the spelling meant.